Monday, February 5, 2024

 Why then should one insist on forcing dreams, texts, words,
and actions to signify? Keep the dream-bursts apart;
let them resound together without filling the intervals
that allow them to coexist in all their richness within
dissonance … Forget meaning and with it the subject.
Repression cannot resist the folly of winds. Beauty will
be amnesiac or it will not be at all."

~ Sylvère Lotringer, "The Dance of Signs" 

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